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Breakeven math for the Antminer L7 and L9 at five electricity tiers, before and after the 2027 Litecoin halving. The twist nobody prices in: DOGE merge-mining, not LTC, decides who
Guide · Apr 7, 202684 million coins. 32 halvings. The complete emission table from genesis to the last litoshi. What happened after each halving, why returns are diminishing, and the security budget
Analysis · Mar 22, 2026The fourth Litecoin halving hits block 3,360,000 around July 2027. All three previous halvings were sell-the-news events. Here is the complete data, mining economics, and the playb
Analysis · Dec 3, 2025Every four years the block reward halves. Analysis of all three halvings, price patterns, miner economics, and what to watch for 2027.
Analysis · Aug 3, 2026Four boom-bust cycles, two sold-the-news halvings, one founder who cashed out at the top. Every major Litecoin cycle from 2011 to 2026, with the causes behind the numbers.
Analysis · Jul 16, 2026Litecoin trades around 90% below its 2021 high, which makes "is it too late" the wrong question. A framework for thinking about entry, cycles, the 2027 halving, and position sizing
Guide · Jun 28, 2026Litecoin is capped at 84 million coins, with roughly 76 million already mined by 2026. Here's how issuance, halvings, and lost coins shape the real number.
Analysis · Jun 19, 2026Bitcoin's direction explains most of LTC's daily move. Here are the genuine price drivers, honestly weighted - and the overrated ones (halvings, ETFs, partnerships) debunked.
Guide · May 4, 2026LTC correlates 0.85 with BTC but has higher beta and pre-halving alpha windows. Portfolio templates, Sharpe ratios, rebalancing rules, and the barbell approach.
Guide · May 4, 2026LTC is dead. Charlie Lee abandoned it. Nobody uses it. The halving always pumps. Each myth examined with data — and honest acknowledgment of what critics DO get right.
Guide · Mar 27, 2026LitVM mainnet. The 2027 halving. ETF competition. The CLARITY Act. Four time-bound events with observable triggers — and the bear case for each one. No guarantees, no hopium.
Analysis · Mar 22, 2026LTC at $54 — 87% below ATH. Key support at $50, resistance at $70 and $107. Halving cycle shows diminishing returns. Here are the bull, base, and bear scenarios with honest probabi
Guide · Mar 22, 2026Litecoin hashrate hit 3.34 PH/s — an all-time high. How merged mining with Dogecoin doubles the security budget, what a 51% attack would cost, and why the 2027 halving creates a te
Guide · Mar 22, 2026Charlie Lee forked Bitcoin in October 2011 with no ICO, no pre-mine, and no VC money. 15 years later, Litecoin has processed 300M transactions, survived three halvings, and outlast
News · Mar 22, 2026The sixth Litecoin Summit heads to Amsterdam on June 22-23, kicking off Dutch Blockchain Week. With LitVM, the SEC commodity ruling, and halving narrative converging, this is not a
Analysis · Aug 3, 2026CBDCs promise stability and control; Litecoin promises neither party can change the rules. An honest 2026 comparison of the digital euro, e-CNY, and neutral money.
Analysis · Jul 20, 2026Three internally consistent futures for LTC: quiet utility, slow fade, or second wind. Explicit conditions, watchable early signals, and the fee-market problem nobody has solved. N
Analysis · Jul 20, 2026Charlie Lee changed one number in Bitcoin's code and got a different coin. A deep dive into Litecoin's 2.5-minute block time: orphan physics, honest security math, and why nobody a
Analysis · Jul 20, 2026Litecoin shares Bitcoin's code, curve, and correlation. We model four Bitcoin failure scenarios honestly: which ones LTC dodges, which it inherits, and why it's not the hedge you t
Analysis · Jul 20, 2026Litecoin launched in 2011 with a forum post and open-source code, not a whitepaper. Why that omission was honest, what documents actually define LTC, and why great whitepapers neve
Analysis · Jun 28, 2026What $1,000 LTC actually requires: a ~$77B market cap, a major BTC bull run, and a reversal of a decade-long LTC/BTC decline. The arithmetic, not the hopium.
Analysis · Jun 8, 2026Litecoin and Dogecoin share one Scrypt computation through AuxPoW. On modern hardware DOGE often pays the bigger share. Here's what actually breaks if either coin falls.
Analysis · May 31, 2026An EVM rollup is being bolted onto Litecoin to bring DeFi and smart contracts to LTC liquidity. A grounded look at what shipped, what's promised, and what could break.
Analysis · May 29, 2026A data-driven swing at how much Litecoin is gone for good, built on dormancy cohorts, early-mining forensics, and an honest accounting of what the chain can and can't tell us.
Analysis · May 17, 2026LTC/BTC ratio at all-time lows. Price -87% from ATH. But hashrate at 3.5 PH/s ATH, 400K active addresses, 3.7M institutional LTC. Sentiment vs usage — who is right?
News · May 17, 2026One month until the biggest Litecoin event of 2026. Charlie Lee keynote confirmed. Live LitVM smart contract demo scheduled. Full speaker lineup and what traders should watch for.
News · May 17, 2026Hashrate climbs to 3.5 PH/s while LTC trades at $56. Miner confidence at record levels. New Antminer L11 deployment, merged mining economics, and what the divergence signals.
Guide · May 17, 2026$1000 at genesis ($0.30) = $180,000 today. $1000 at ATH ($410) = $132 today. $1000 DCA across all 12 milestones = $188,700. The table that tells the whole story.
Analysis · May 17, 2026Exchange cold wallets, LITS treasury (929K LTC), Grayscale trust, dormant 2011 miners, MWEB hidden whales. On-chain wealth concentration analysis with Gini coefficient.
Guide · May 17, 202695% of Litecoin Core is identical to Bitcoin Core. Seven changes: Scrypt, 2.5min blocks, 84M supply, address prefixes, difficulty, ports, and MWEB (30K lines). The 5% that is uniqu